Word: holocaustal
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...Church and the Faults of the Past," is expected to be an entirely unprecedented action by a remarkable pontiff, urging the faithful and the clergy to honestly face up to those moments in its history when, he believes, the church was not true to its own teachings. The Holocaust may be the most commonly discussed of these moments, but the church's collective mea culpa is expected to cover everything from the Crusades and the Inquisition to its attitude toward Christians of other denominations. Not that each of these sins and infractions will receive detailed treatment: "Given the number...
...Nonetheless, outsiders look set to take issue, particularly representatives of the Jewish community who have for decades pressed the Vatican to acknowledge its failures to adequately respond to - and, some would argue, even its complicity in creating the climate for - the Holocaust. "The Jewish Anti-Defamation League is unhappy with what's contained in 'Memory and Reconciliation,' because they believe it still fails to admit the church's corporate responsibility for any complicity in the Holocaust," says Van Biema. "It lays the blame on flawed humans - although the document uses the term 'generations' to imply this wasn't simply...
...defeated in '82 2. German President Johannes, who has asked forgiveness for the Holocaust 3. Follower of Lenin or Stalin? 4. New Reform Party chairman Pat 5. Russia is restoring its ties with this group 6. Ab __ (from the beginning) 7. He bolted his party 8. Gridder turned pol 9. "The __" (what Bush calls the Texas legislature) 10. Friedrich, the likely new head of Germany's C.D.U. 13. Wispy clouds 19. According to 21. Punch-in-the-gut reaction 22. Detached, in mus. 23. Drug smuggler's unit 24. Not "fer" 25. Cast out 28. Partner of Howard and Howard...
...Thernstrom added that a distinction should be noted between the payment of reparations to direct victims--such as Holocaust survivors or Japanese Americans who were interned during World War II--and to descendents of victims...
Added to this already considerable variety are grim Holocaust tales, a love affair and the adventures of an ex-newspaper reporter who decides to bring a few stories to an end by murdering their evil protagonists. Oh yes, and Father Pemberton, now defrocked, comes to believe that he has found an answer to his doubts...